# Can anyone id this movie about a farmer

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**Created:** [August 31, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-movie-about-a-farmer/697064 "2014-08-31T19:10:46Z")
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### Author: ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-movie-about-a-farmer/697064/1 "2014-08-31T19:10:46Z")

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I must’ve seen it in the mid 80s. All I recall is a scene where the farmer is under a combine working on it, and they get their Forearm caught in the gears. A bull then comes up and the farmer throws a wrench at the bull hoping it will ram the combine so the farmer can get their Forearm loose.

I can’t recall if the farmer was a man or woman. I think a woman but I don’t know.

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### Author: ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-movie-about-a-farmer/697064/2 "2014-08-31T19:41:39Z")

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The River with Sissy Spacek.

> **[The River (1984) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088007/?ref_=nv_sr_5)**
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> The River: Directed by Mark Rydell. With Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, Shane Bailey, Becky Jo Lynch. A farming family battles severe storms, a bank is threatening to repossess their farm, and there are other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to...